- ※ Thanksgiving Day感恩节的由来
- Now I would like to give you some details about Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Thanksgiving Day is the most truly American of the national Holidays in the United States and is most closely con..
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- ※ Thanksgiving Day
- Almost every culture in the world has held celebrations of thanks for a plentiful harvest. The American Thanksgiving holiday began as a feast of thanksgiving in the early days of the American colonies..
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- ※ [推荐语音版]Turkeys and Thanksgiving
- Im Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving Day this Thursday. The holiday tradition includes eating turkey. Some of the birds will be fried in..
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- ※ 感恩节(Thanksgiving Day)中文版
- 11月的最后一个星期四是感恩节。感恩节是美国人民独创的一个古老节日,也是美国人合家欢聚的节日,因此美国人提起感恩节总是倍感亲切。 感恩节的由来要一直追溯到美国历史的发端。1620年,闻名的“五月花”号船满载不..
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- ※ Literary Giant: Theodore Dreiser
- A. General Introductionborn Aug. 27, 1871, Terre Haute, Ind., U.S. died Dec. 28, 1945, Hollywood, Calif. novelist who was the outstanding American practitioner of naturalism. He was the leading figure..
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- ※ Literary Giant: Robert Frost
- Robert Lee Frost1874-1963"Do not follow where the path may lead... Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Robert Frost- Born March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California- Fath..
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- ※ Literary Giant: Walt Whitman
- Life and Background Walt Whitman is both a major poet and an outstanding personality in the history of American literature. He rose from obscurity to monumental fame, coming to be recognized as a nati..
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- ※ Literary Giant: Washington Irving
- (1783 to 1859) Introduction In spite of Irvings seventeen years in Europe, his search for native themes led him to contribute importantly to portraiture of the American Indian. Although his firstha..
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- ※ Literary Giant: Edgar Allen Poe
- (1809-1849) Harold Bloom on Allen Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson called him the jingle man, Mark Twain said that his prose was unreadable, and Henry James felt that a taste for his work was the mark of ..
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- ※ Literary Giant: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- (1804-1864) Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the descendent of a long line of Puritan ancestors, including John Hathorne, a presiding magistrate in the Salem witc..
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